Global AML Manager

OpenKrill; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Airwallex is seeking an AML/CTF compliance professional to join our Regulatory & Compliance team. You will translate regulatory expectations into risk-based policies, controls, and guidance to support safe, scalable growth across global markets.

Collaborate with Product, Risk, Engineering, Operations and regional teams to embed financial crime controls into onboarding, monitoring, and transaction workflows.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of AML/CTF experience in financial services, fintech, payments or regulated environments.
• Understanding of AML/CTF laws, regulations and enforcement across jurisdictions.
• Experience with customer due diligence, enhanced due diligence and transaction monitoring.
• Experience with onboarding, screening, case-management or related compliance tech processes.
• Ability to assess complex customer profiles and cross-border payments.
• Strong written communication, analytical and project management skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain global AML/CTF policy framework and minimum standards.
• Advise on risk-based AML/CTF processes and controls across multiple lines of defense.
• Monitor regulatory developments and update policies, procedures and controls.
• Provide advisory support for investigations of escalated cases and potential financial crime.
• Collaborate with Risk, Product, Data, Engineering, Ops and Compliance teams to embed AML/CTF in workflows.
• Support regulatory examinations, bank inquiries and audits; prepare governance materials.

Skills

AML/CTF

Regulatory knowledge

CDD/EDD

Transaction monitoring

Stakeholder mgmt

Analytical writing

Education

CAMS

Job description

ABOUT AIRWALLEX

Airwallex is the AI-native financial operating system for a real-time, intelligent economy. More than 675,000 businesses, including McLaren Racing, Qantas, SHEIN, and TikTok, use us, directly or through our platform partners, to run their financial operations or build and monetize financial products of their own.

We started in Melbourne in 2015 to build the infrastructure global commerce runs on. We're the regulated backbone behind global payments: not by accident, but by design. A decade plus, 85+ licenses, and a financial infrastructure spanning North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific.

We're co-headquartered in San Francisco and Singapore, with more than 2,300 people across 27 offices. We hire builders with founder-level energy, people who move fast with good judgment, dig in with real curiosity, and make calls from first principles rather than waiting to be told what to do. Read our operating principles https://www.airwallex.com/en-us/operating-principles to see it in full.

ABOUT THE TEAM

The Regulatory & Compliance team at Airwallex is a global, collaborative function responsible for helping the company grow safely and sustainably. We provide trusted guidance across the business, strengthen our regulatory framework, and promote a culture of compliance, sound risk management, and ethical conduct.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

This role offers an opportunity to join a high-impact team working to help Airwallex manage global money laundering and terrorist financing risks. You will translate regulatory expectations and financial crime risks into practical, risk-based policies, controls, and guidance that support safe and sustainable growth. You will work closely with Product, Commercial, Operations, Risk, Engineering, and regional compliance teams across a global payments business.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Support the development, implementation and ongoing maintenance of Airwallex’s Global AML/CTF Policy Framework, including articulation of global minimum standards,across the first and second lines of defense, partnering with regional teams on appropriate regional and local adaptations.
• Develop, implement, and advise on risk-based AML/CTF processes and controls covering customer due diligence, enhanced due diligence, beneficial ownership, ongoing monitoring, transaction monitoring, suspicious activity escalation, and higher-risk customer management.
• Monitor global AML/CTF regulatory developments, enforcement trends, and industry practices, assess their impact on Airwallex, and support updates to policies, procedures, controls, and implementation plans.
• Advisory support for the review and investigation of escalated customers, accounts, and transactions involving potential money laundering, terrorist financing, or other financial crime concerns to provide interpretative guidance of policy requirements.
• Partner with the Risk Assessment, Product, Data, Engineering, Operations, and Compliance Technology teams to identify emerging risks, evaluate control effectiveness, and translate AML/CTF requirements into effective onboarding, monitoring, screening, payment, and case-management workflows.
• Support regulatory examinations, partner bank inquiries, and audits; prepare governance materials, metrics, risk indicators, and training; and contribute to due diligence, remediation, and continuous improvement projects that strengthen the global AML/CTF program.
• Maintain central program registers and governance of action items in response to self-identified issues, internal and external assurance results, and regulatory findings ensuring global program read across for visibility and analysis of root causes and remediation plans.

WHO YOU ARE

We’re looking for people who meet the minimum requirements for this role. The preferred qualifications are great to have, but are not mandatory.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• 7+ years of experience in AML/CTF, financial crime compliance, or a related risk or regulatory function within financial services, fintech, payments, banking, or a similarly complex regulated environment.
• Demonstrated understanding of AML/CTF laws, regulations, enforcement trends, and industry practices across multiple jurisdictions.
• Experience supporting or managing AML program components such as customer risk assessment, customer due diligence, enhanced due diligence, transaction monitoring, suspicious activity investigations, or sanctions-related financial crime controls.
• Experience working with customer onboarding, transaction monitoring, screening, case-management, or other compliance technology, including alert review, case disposition, or control enhancement processes.
• Ability to assess complex customer profiles, commercial transactions, products, and cross-border payment flows and identify practical, risk-based recommendations.
• Strong written communication, analytical, project management, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to work independently and collaborate across a global program.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• CAMS or an equivalent globally recognized AML or financial crime compliance credential.
• Experience interacting with regulators, auditors, correspondent banks, financial institution partners, or other external stakeholders on AML/CTF matters.
• Experience in fintech and payments, including cross-border payments, virtual accounts, multi-currency wallets, or multi-entity regulated groups.
• Experience partnering with Product, Data, Engineering, or Operations teams to embed AML/CTF requirements into automated workflows, dashboards, or other technology-enabled compliance tools.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY

Airwallex is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and anyone seeking employment at Airwallex is considered based on merit, qualifications, competence and talent. We don’t regard color, religion, race, national origin, sexual orientation, ancestry, citizenship, sex, marital or family status, disability, gender, or any other legally protected status when making our hiring decisions. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.